THE DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING IN NORTHERN IRELAND. (VOLUMES I AND II).
Contributors: University Of Ulster (Northern Ireland)
Published: 1983
Number of pages: 500
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: Available from UMI in association with The British Library.

The study is of the development of nursing in the north-eastern counties of Ulster presently Northern Ireland. The published literature on the subject is very limited. The data used was predominantly from primary sources, including records of hospitals, statutory bodies and professional organisations. Parliamentary papers were extensively used, also oral evidence from serving and past nurses, doctors and health service administrators.

The work is in two parts. The first is a thematic study of the development of nursing from pre-Christian times to the present day. Because of the extended period involved, the work is broken down into chronological periods within which the themes of nurse training, nursing service and the development in the professional status of nurses are considered against the wider political, social and economic background of the period; including changes in the pattern of disease, developments in medical science and provision of health services employing nurses. The major influences of change or lack of change are identified and discussed with particular reference to the role played by nurses themselves.

Part two comprises two statistical studies. The first, based on Nursing Registers and Rolls, examines the geographical origins of nurses, the distribution of nurse training and the relationship between the two. The second, based on census returns for Ireland and Northern Ireland, examines the changes in ratios of nurses to populations and the development of nursing into a numerically important occupation for women.

It is concluded that although nurses contributed to the raising of the status of nursing they had relatively little influence on the development of nurse training or service. Of much greater influence were the needs of the wider society, financial constraints, the demands of the medical profession resulting from the advances in medical science and the need to maintain reciprocity with developments in Great Britain.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-11, Section: B, page: 5243.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER (NORTHERN IRELAND), 1983.

School code: 5075.